[Presentation]

Connie Clement
Executive Director, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse

Quote:

"The challenge today is to resolve collective and policy action that will turn downstream results around, and result in upstream actions. Each of us can move all along the stream."

1A – Can we change the system? How?

Why did we win smoke-free places and pesticide by-laws in some municipalities, but still can’t get legislation to end child poverty and homelessness? What are the critical factors that make wins possible and barriers surmountable? This session identifies critical success factors and barriers to winning upstream, prevention-oriented government policy.

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Panelists

Helen C. Cooper - Board Member, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse; Ruth Grier - Chair of the Environmental and Occupational Working Group of the Toronto Cancer Prevention Coalition, Member of the Provincial Cancer Prevention and Screening Council; Doris Grinspun - Executive Director, Registered Nurses' Association of Ontario

2A – Where are the determinants of health?

This session drew on specific experiences and debates within chronic disease prevention. While emphasis on individual behaviours usually dominates the debate, this session analyzed how to effectively integrate an understanding of the social and living conditions that determine health.

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Panelists

Carmen R. Connolly - President, Carmen R. Connolly Consulting Inc.
Board Member, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse ; Stephen Samis -
Director, Health Policy, Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada ; Sandra Laclé - Interim Director, Clinical Services Division, Sudbury & District Health Unit.

3A - Breaking out of silos: The critical need for partnership

This session examined the inter-connectedness of social, economic and environmental factors and demonstrates how multi-sectoral approaches are imperative for real, long-term and lasting improvements in health. The session shared lessons and ideas gained from successful inter-sectoral partnerships and help participants find others with common commitments.

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Panelists

Amanuel Melles - Director, Organizational Capacity Building, United Way of Greater Toronto ; Dr. Ronald Colman - Founder and Executive Director, GPI Atlantic ; Carla Palmer - Executive Director, Barrie Community Health Centre

4A – Access alone is not enough: Solutions for Francophone communities

This session will delve into how we can move beyond access to change services for Francophone minorities, including immigrant and aboriginal Francophones. It will look at new service models for specific populations; explore solutions to help bilingual staff provide effective Francophone services from within predominately Anglophone organizations; and analyse successes to improve access and service.

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Lise Girard - Senior Management Advisor, Renewal of Health Care Services, Department of Health and Wellness of New Brunswick; Antoine Dérose - Program Consultant, Policy, Education and Health Promotion, Centre of Addiction and Mental Health; Paul J. A. Chaput - President, Creative Consulting
Board Member, Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse.

5A – How the private sector can help us paddle upstream

This session shows how the private sector uses its community influence and operational policies to encourage healthy public policies and sustainable community practices. It will give specific examples of how business fosters sustainable local economies while contributing to health outcomes for child health, employment, cultural diversity and the natural environment, and how those of us in the voluntary and public sectors can work with private partners to reduce social disparities.

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Panelists

Mary F. Sylver - mfsylver & associates, Board Member-Ontario Prevention Clearinghouse; Chris Lowry - Coordinator, Toronto Business Alliance for a Local Living Economy, BALLE; Donna Morton - Co-Founder and Executive Director, Centre for Integral Economics (CIE).

Prevention Then and Now

OPC’s founding chair reflected upon where prevention has traveled in the past 20 years, told stories and looked at how we could ensure a greater social commitment to prevention.

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Speaker

Malcolm Shookner
Community Development Project Director, Nova Scotia Voluntary Planning

[View the Roundtable Summaries in PDF]

Designed as a conversation café, roundtables identified winnable wins, do-able strategies and critical factors that lead to success. Examples of 'upstream' programs, projects and partnerships inspired an open dialogue so that participants could take away key lessons.

Liz Rykert
President, Meta Strategies Inc.

Liz Rykert of Meta Strategies clarified the process and intent of the conversation cafés. Each table was topic specific.

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Following is a list of the roundtable topics.

B1 - Promoting Family Sex Education in Ethno Cultural Communities Using Capacity Building Model
B2 - Making the Invisible Visible: LGBT Communities Discuss Health
B3 - Building Alliances to Promote Mental Health
B4 - Creating Healthy, Safe and Inclusive Spaces for Young Artists
B5 - Moving Toward Healthy Schools: Essential Partnerships
B6 - French Services Partnership: Joining Forces to Go Forward
B7 - Hospital and Public Health:
Seamless Community Care for Childbearing Families
B8 - Social Determinants of Health: Surmounting Resistance
B9 - Moving from Stroke Prevention to Chronic Disease Prevention
B10 - Developing Culturally Appropriate Services
B11 - Supporting Behavioural Change
B12 - Empowering Female Immigrants
B13 - Creating Supportive Living Environments
B14 - Working with Youth and Addressing Gun Violence
B15 - Building Capacity for Community Level Preschool Nutrition Screening
B16 - Youth Engagement, Our Hope for Upstream
B17 - Building a Canadian Community for Dialogue and
Deliberation
B18 - Using Technologies Effectively for Non-Profit Work
B19 - Using Economic Valuation to Promote Disease Prevention Policies
B20 - Community Development in Action
B21 - Enhancing Student Nourishment through Multi Sectoral Parternerships (government, industry and community)
B22 - Connecting the Dots for Chronic Disease Prevention
B23 - Using Inclusion as a Framework for Policy Change
B24 - Marginalized Women and their Health Concerns
B25 - Innovative Partnerships while Breaking "the rules"
B26 - Developing Community through Social Housing
B27 - Building Strength-Based Approaches with Aboriginal Children

The young, active and visionary panelists shared 'upstream', out of the box ideas about what we can all do to create social and policy commitments for prevention and health promotion.

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Panelists

Sonia Dong
Program Director, Citizens' Environment Watch (CEW)

Simon Lalande
President, Interim Council, Assemblée de la francophonie de l'Ontario

Kehinde Bah
Children and Youth Program Associate, Laidlaw Foundation